Monument Valley Park, Urban park in Colorado Springs, United States

Monument Valley Park is a historic recreational park in central Colorado Springs, Colorado, about two miles long, with Monument Creek flowing north to south through its center. It is divided by Uintah Street into a northern section with a picnic shelter and play field, and a southern section holding the South Field, sand volleyball area, picnic pavilion, swimming pool, playground and tennis courts. The park is bounded by Interstate 25 and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway to the west and residential housing to the east.

General William Jackson Palmer donated the land to the city between 1904 and 1907, and formal gardens with paved paths were laid out shortly after. A major flood in 1935 reshaped much of the park, and the stone structures added during the rebuild have remained ever since.

The park's name comes from Monument Creek, not from the rock formations of the American Southwest. General Palmer named the stream for the sandstone buttes it resembled, and the park took its name from the creek. The spring he found in 1904 was named Tahama Spring after Zebulon Pike's Indian guide, and the 1926 pavilion built in Palmer's memory stands at that spring.

The park is split into two sections by Uintah Street, with the southern part holding the pool, picnic pavilion, tennis and basketball courts, sand volleyball and playground, and the northern part a picnic shelter, play field and Boddington Park. Trails total 4.25 miles: a 2.25-mile North Loop and a two-mile South Loop, plus a one-mile fitness course. The Pikes Peak Greenway runs on both banks of Monument Creek, and the western trails link to the Mesa Springs Greenway at Sonderman Park.

A mineral spring installation with a concrete vault and a hand pump survives from Palmer's original plans for the park. This detail shows that public water sources were once seen as a central feature of a well-designed city park, not just an afterthought.